NAT. UNION FIRE INS. v. STAUFFER CHEM.


558 A.2d 1091 (1989)

NATIONAL UNION FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY OF PITTSBURGH, PA., and The Travelers Indemnity Company, foreign corporation and American Motorists Insurance Company, a corporation of the State of Illinois, Plaintiffs, v. STAUFFER CHEMICAL COMPANY, a Delaware corporation and Stauffer Basic Chemical Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation as successor in interest to Stauffer Chemical Company, Defendants.

Superior Court of Delaware, New Castle County.

Decided: January 31, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael Weiss, of Kimmel, Spiller & Weiss, Wilmington, Robert A. Zeavin, Adrienne F. Millican, John A. Graniez and Loucinda Laughlin, of Buchalter, Nemer, Fields & Younger, Los Angeles, Cal., for plaintiff Nat. Union Fire Ins. Co.

Robert C. O'Hara and Alan T. Boyd, of Bayard, Handelman & Murdoch, Wilmington, Pamela G. Ostrager, Sophia Drewnowski and Diana R. Frost, of Coudert Bros., New York City, for plaintiff The Travelers Indem. Co.

Robert K. Beste, of Biggs & Battaglia, Wilmington, Timothy C. Russell and Patricia A. Gotschalk, of Drinker, Biddle & Reath, Washington, D.C., for plaintiff American Motorists Ins. Co.

Thomas Reed Hunt, Jr. and Brett D. Fallon, of Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell, Wilmington, Robert N. Saylor, Matthew L. Jacobs, Jeffrey D. Nuechterlein, and Marialuisa S. Gallozzi, of Covington & Burling, Washington, D.C., for defendants Stauffer Chemical Co. and Stauffer Basic Chemical Holdings, Inc.


OPINION

MARTIN, Judge.

The discovery issues presented in this case arise from the interpretation of comprehensive general liability insurance policies issued by plaintiffs National Union Fire Insurance Company ("National Union"), The Travelers Indemnity Company ("Travelers"), and American Motorists Insurance Company ("Amico") to the defendant Stauffer Chemical Company ("Stauffer") between January 1969 and January...

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